Everyone that has ever worked in a home building or construction related business knows how difficult it is to properly manage field personnel and trade contractor crews. Keeping efficiency high is crucial for a small company like ours while constant communication is a must. Managing do-do lists, site meetings, punch-lists and several revisions of construction documents for several crews and trade contractors can be a monstrous task
As a small company specializing in energy efficient green building and construction, EGC has always focused on the use of technology that can be implemented in a cost efficient manner, but most importantly – will be used by the whole team involved during the construction process. As featured in this months article in Remodeling Magazine we use a combination of affordable yet effective technology that enables us to manage all of our projects in a efficient, environmentally friendly way. TSheets is an incredible app running on the iPhone that enables our lead carpenters to properly log time for their entire crews, completely with cost code integration. Site meetings, punch-lists and schedules are updated through Outpost, an app that updates and synchronizes with our project management solution – Basecamp. Daily reports for each project as well as meeting minutes are filed through Outpost along with pictures snapped with the iphones’ camera. These pictures are also uploaded to our internal Flickr site for a complete visual project documentation. This process ensures nearly perfect information tracking. But most importantly, it ensures that EGCs green building projects are managed with the care and detail that our clients expect and deserve.
